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Everyone seems to have forgotten what "tilt shift" photography is actually about.

The majority of tilt shift shots online follow the pattern of "perfectly ordinary boring photograph, with gaussian blur added selectively to pull off a cheap fake tilt effect". Which is dreary.  So as a stand of principle, rather than a crappy fake tilt job, here's a "real" shift photo, using the tilt and shift concept as one of its serious uses was intended, to give "correct" perspective for architectural work.

This is still, however, somewhat of a cheat - I don't own a real tilt-shift lens, so this is instead a crop from an ultra-wide; the optical result is effectively the same, only with less of my sensor available to play with.

This wasn't a planned shot, however, and improvising on the spot meant this had to be shot hand-held at night - hence the high ISO (10,000) and the resultant noise, made worse by the drastic crop that was required to achieve the desired effect.

Editing steps: slight perspective correction, curves to bring up the golden lights in the museum and give the outside a bluer night cast, cloning out distracting litter on the ground and stains on the walls and a distracting tarpaulin on one of the rooves, dodging and burning, crop, resize and selective sharpen.

Prints are available at www.dpcprints.com/print.php?IM…
Image size
1200x1200px 1.33 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Shutter Speed
1/12 second
Aperture
F/4.0
Focal Length
10 mm
ISO Speed
10000
Date Taken
Sep 3, 2016, 12:39:38 AM
Lens
10-20mm
Sensor Size
8mm
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